Lead DevOps Engineer

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Job Description

Remote- In-office Expectations: This position is fully remote with no in-office requirements, (might require coming into an office 1 or 2x a year)
 

As a DevOps Lead you will be part time manager and part time Individual Contributor.

As a manager you will help lead and mentor the team, and ensure that the team is working on the most important problems. Both responsibilities will be done in partnership with an Engineering Manager.

As an Individual Contributor you will be instrumental in increasing the quality and speed of code deployments and improving our CI/CD pipeline. You will work on automating code testing, facilitating continuous integration, and improving production reliability.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with engineering teams to improve and automate processes; manage, automate and standardize software releases and maintain production systems. This person must have the ability to deliver clear, succinct, impactful and professional communication.  

Familiarity with container technologies, AWS, Terraform & Container orchestrators are critical requirements for success in this position.

About Your Contributions:

• Work with Development teams to build, improve and maintain language agnostic cloud CI/CD pipelines as code.

• Write and maintain unit and integration tests of CI/CD and infrastructure automation, codebases and systems.

• Work with Development teams to build, and maintain cloud infrastructure code artifacts.

• Iterate on cloud infrastructure to automate infrastructure deployment and make infrastructure increasingly adaptive.

• Work with Development teams to better leverage container infrastructure and build cloud-native systems.

• Work with QA and Development teams to build out tools for automated release verification, testing and sign-off process.

• Maintain and ensure data and environment consistency including data replication between production and lower environments.

• Design & Implement logging, tracing and monitoring solutions for containers, CI/CD systems automated processes with the aim of building effective, actionable dashboards.

• Design & Implement cost engineering solutions to reduce idle infrastructure  and avoidable cloud costs.

About You:

• Experience with AWS Infrastructure Automation, IAM, CloudFormation Templates, Terraform, Ansible and Packer.

• Experience in maintaining AWS infrastructure artifacts in accordance with Security & maintainability best practices.

• Experience with Continuous Integration build, test and deploy tool chains and declarative pipelines.

• Significant experience with 1 or more scripting languages (Groovy, Python, NodeJS)

• Experience deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting applications in Docker containers and serverless code with governance experience in repository managers.

• Experience with Container Orchestrator solutions like Kubernetes or ECS.

• Experience with Linux, Apache, Nginx, Java Applications, NodeJS, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

• Knowledge of and ability to write/edit the following scripting languages (Bash, Python) familiarity with regular expressions a plus.

• Solid understanding of the packaging process and ability to tune and adapt build systems such as Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, PNPM or SetupTools/PYPI, used by languages to package code.

• Knowledge of Resiliency and disaster recovery of CI/CD Systems.

• Experience with Service Discovery, configuration and secrets management tools such as Consul and Vault.

It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing ddm.hr@dotdashmdp.com.

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees

Pay Range

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith’s total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.